About Us
Theatre and performance studies is perhaps the most interdisciplinary field in eighteenth-century scholarship, encompassing academic disciplines such as literature, history, music, art history, dance, and architecture, and cutting across national traditions. As a global commodity that circulated transatlantically and beyond, theatre and performance established networks of sociability and economic exchange, while at the same time enacting and resisting colonialism. The stage was therefore at the centre of eighteenth-century culture and is a major focus of eighteenth-century studies today.
Our caucus aims to bridge disciplines and geographies, bringing together scholars from the diverse fields mentioned above with the goal of deepening our understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century performance culture through collaboration and the exchange of ideas from different scholarly perspectives and methodologies. Now moving into its third year of existence, the TaPS caucus is working on establishing a graduate student paper prize and hosting a performance event at the annual meeting. At the ASECS 2023 conference, we are sponsoring panels on “Disruption” (#24) and “Actresses and the Archive” (#110), and we look forward to the many other theatre- and performance-related panels on the docket.
We welcome new members – those who are interested can contact the caucus at [email protected], or reach out directly to our co-chairs Angelina Del Balzo ([email protected]) and Chelsea Phillips ([email protected]).
Our caucus aims to bridge disciplines and geographies, bringing together scholars from the diverse fields mentioned above with the goal of deepening our understanding of Restoration and eighteenth-century performance culture through collaboration and the exchange of ideas from different scholarly perspectives and methodologies. Now moving into its third year of existence, the TaPS caucus is working on establishing a graduate student paper prize and hosting a performance event at the annual meeting. At the ASECS 2023 conference, we are sponsoring panels on “Disruption” (#24) and “Actresses and the Archive” (#110), and we look forward to the many other theatre- and performance-related panels on the docket.
We welcome new members – those who are interested can contact the caucus at [email protected], or reach out directly to our co-chairs Angelina Del Balzo ([email protected]) and Chelsea Phillips ([email protected]).
